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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.
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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality rather, it produces immorality.
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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, Sin and resistance
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Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.
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Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your self-sufficiency.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
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There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
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The hub of Christianity is not do something for Jesus. The hub of Christianity is Jesus has done everything for you.
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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